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Bang   /bæŋ/   Listen
Bang

noun
1.
A vigorous blow.  Synonyms: bash, belt, knock, smash.  "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"
2.
A sudden very loud noise.  Synonyms: bam, blast, clap, eruption.
3.
A border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead.  Synonym: fringe.
4.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: boot, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
5.
A conspicuous success.  Synonyms: hit, smash, smasher, strike.  "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"
verb
(past & past part. banged; pres. part. banging)
1.
Strike violently.  Synonym: slam.
2.
To produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound.
3.
Close violently.  Synonym: slam.
4.
Move noisily.  "The old man banged around the house"
5.
Have sexual intercourse with.  Synonyms: be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with.  "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
6.
Leap, jerk, bang.  Synonym: spang.
adverb
1.
Directly.  Synonyms: bolt, slap, slapdash, smack.  "Ran slap into her"



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"Bang" Quotes from Famous Books



... bang, bang all the way to Canso, with Clancy swearing at Withrow and the Flamingo and Dave Warner and the girl in the case—one after the other and sometimes all together. "Blast Withrow and that crazy fool Dave Warner, too. And ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
... looked in the direction indicated. The door stood half open, and the silhouette of a young woman in a large hat put the upper panels in shadow. The captain rose and, with a vigorous thrust of his foot, closed the door with a bang. ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... "Bang! Bang! Clatter! Smash! Crash!" went the cakes of ice as they came up the incline, and slid down the long wooden chutes, where the men hooked them off and piled them up. Pile after pile was made of the ice, until it was stacked up like an ice berg, ...
— Daddy Takes Us Skating • Howard R. Garis
... is how the box moved about, just like some boy or girl, with a handkerchief tied over his or her eyes, trying to move about to catch someone, and yet trying not to bang into a ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While • Laura Lee Hope
... well," Bishop spluttered, wrestling with an obstructing piece of ice until it was wrenched from his upper lip and slammed stoveward with a bang. ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London


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